Chapter 475: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone!

After watching "Under the Hawthorn Tree" with Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan gave himself a complete vacation.

For the remaining two months of this year, he does not plan to shoot any more works, and does not want to attend film festivals or award ceremonies.

At least before February next year, he does not plan to do any work, just want to have a good rest.

Directors also need to recharge. Although most of the movies he shoots do not require him to conceive the script himself, it is also a very hard thing to control the crew to complete all the work from preparation to shooting and release.

For Wu Yuan, the most suitable work rhythm for him is to take a break for 3-5 months after shooting two movies in a row, recharge, relax, and then face new challenges.

However, he rested, but Liu Yifei could not rest.

She was the main person in charge of the promotion of "Interstellar" in China, and she was also the protagonist of the promotion of this movie in China. Light and Shadow Times sent her a lot of press releases, trying to consolidate her status as an international movie star.

She is in the same role as Anne Hathaway, and even has more scenes than Anne Hathaway. How can she not be an international movie star?

International movie stars naturally have a busy schedule worthy of international movie stars.

From the mainland to Hong Kong and Taiwan, to Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, from September to November, Liu Yifei almost never rested, flying all over Asia to cooperate with the promotion of "Interstellar".

She, who is a frequent flyer, often complained to Wu Yuan on the phone, why can he, a director, rest at home leisurely, while she, a working actor, has to fly all over Asia to make money for him.

Not only her, Anne Hathaway and Mads Mikkelsen also flew all over Europe, working tirelessly to promote the film.

In this regard, Wu Yuan could only say to Liu Yifei in a proud manner: "Who told me that I am the investor, and I didn't sign a contract to cooperate with the promotion?"

"Besides, everyone is going for you, the leading actors. It doesn't really make a big difference whether I, the director, go to promote or not."

"As long as I do my work behind the scenes, that's enough."

Every time Wu Yuan said this, he could hear Liu Yifei gritting her teeth on the other end of the phone.

Of course, the crew's main creators worked so hard to promote, and the rewards they got were also sufficient.

At the end of December, "Interstellar" ended its release in all regions around the world. The final global box office statistics from Universal were as high as 1.26 billion US dollars, which exceeded Wu Yuan's expectations but did not meet Universal's expectations.

Although it failed to match "Avatar", which disappointed Universal, the box office of 1.2 billion US dollars would have been the champion movie of the year in previous years, and it was worth Universal and Paramount to open champagne!

Wu Yuan was also officially listed as one of the best contemporary Hollywood science fiction directors, slightly inferior to James Cameron, but superior to Nolan.

After the fantasy and magic fields, Wu Yuan has also become one of the authorities in Hollywood and even global directors in science fiction films, and has been widely praised.

For this reason, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei, who had just finished the promotion, flew to Los Angeles to attend a box office celebration banquet for "Interstellar".

20th Century Fox even took the initiative to contact Wu Yuan privately, offering a sky-high director fee of 20 million US dollars, inviting him to direct a blockbuster science fiction film in the next stage of Fox.

Warner once again reiterated its intention to invite Wu Yuan to direct the DC movie universe.

"Green Lantern" lived up to expectations and was a bloodbath.

Compared with the flourishing Marvel Cinematic Universe next door, DC's film strategy has failed again and again, and all of them have failed except Nolan's "Dark Knight Trilogy".

Now Warner really needs an excellent science fiction film director, especially a director who is good at business, to open a DC movie universe for Warner like Marvel!

Warner's ambitious "Superman" reboot plan, "The Flash", "Aquaman", "Justice League" and other popular comic IPs urgently need a legendary director to take over and integrate them into a movie universe!

However, just like Wu Yuan refused without hesitation last time, this time Warner came to the door, Wu Yuan was still very moved, and then declined.

The DC movie universe is really a hot potato. The real opening work of the DC movie universe, "Superman: Man of Steel", has only so-so reputation and box office results.

In addition, DC's "Justice League" has pitted Zack Snyder badly.

What is Zack Snyder's status in the DC movie universe?

It can be said that without him, there would be no DC movie universe, and there would be no "Superman: Man of Steel" to save the market. As a result, Zack Snyder was still pitted by Warner in the "Justice League" project, and he didn't even have the right to edit.

Wu Yuan doesn't want to wade into this muddy water.

Now that he has achieved success and fame in Hollywood, he doesn't need to prove himself by "saving the DC movie universe".

On the contrary, taking over this project may make him "lose his reputation"!

After wisely declining Warner again, Wu Yuan didn't even stay and rushed back to China with Liu Yifei the next day.

Compared to being a dog for Warner, he is more interested in the Chinese love film he is going to make next.

In the past few months of vacation, Wu Yuan has been either playing around at home or perfecting his new movie script.

For this new Chinese film, he plans to let himself go completely.

I don’t care about the box office, art or not, or audience expectations. I just want to make a movie that is truly mine and that I want to make.

It has been ten years since he officially entered the industry in 2000.

In ten years, Wu Yuan has grown from a new director to a famous contemporary director who is one of the best in the world. He has made great achievements in both art films and commercial films. He is a genius director praised by the outside world and the best director in the 21st century in China among the European film population.

However, most of his achievements are attributed to the gift of his dream memories.

These movies he made are all his works in the eyes of the outside world, but Wu Yuan himself knows that these works were just moved by his hands. He is a creator, but not an author.

And this time, after honing himself for ten years, plus the 20 years of ups and downs in the industry in his dream, Wu Yuan wants to really try and make a movie that belongs to him.

Regardless of whether the final result is good or bad, whether it will be accepted and recognized by fans or abandoned, he will accept it with pleasure.

No director can be successful all his life and never make a bad movie.

No director will stay in his comfort zone forever and dare not try to break through.

Some things have to be faced sooner or later.

This day will always come, unless he plans to stop filming after 2022 and never make a movie again.

Otherwise, while Yu Ze in his dream memory is still there, he should try to take the first step.

Of course, Wu Yuan, who has always been conservative, will not make a big scene for his first "trouble", just a low-cost love drama.

He has been writing the script of this movie since the end of last year. After taking a complete vacation for the past three months, he carefully polished it and finally wrote a script that he thought was perfect.

This is a story born from a love letter that spans time and space.